Danmachi: the Great Devourer

C154: Angry

Alt Title: Raikou

Overall Word count = 1303 on 10/29/2024. 

Nearly forgot about this chapter today. Sorry

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"Care to say that one more time. Pretty please, just for me?!" 

Axel asks kindly with his right hand clenched into a fist. A frosty pressure envelops the whole tent and further as his intense killing intent is released. The others can somehow see that Axel is getting closer to the cloaked figure which is Alaya even though he is not actually 'walking'. 

Those further away might assume that he is simply shuffling forward for some reason, but those who are closer can outright see that not a single bit of his legs are tensing, no trail is left behind as he moves. As if the very ground was moving with him on top and that is technically the case. 

Outside the tent, Raikou is sitting on a stump of a tree that was recently cut down by a few people who were in the general plan of trying to rebuild Orario even though the decision has not been proclaimed yet. She is currently drinking a fruity drink that Axel had given her when she was still in his territory. She is impressed that it didn't disappear when she left to help out. Everybody was fairly confused by what she was holding as she helped various citizens and Ganesha.

The most confused was definitely Semiramis as her heightened magical senses atop her floating garden informed her that the drink was concentrated divine energy. Her confusion only escalated when Raikou was trying to persuade her to release the people whilst slurping upon the drink and the straw in it until it was empty, speak to her and it began to magically refill and then she would drink again until it was empty. 

The constant switch between drinking and talking was the reason that it took so long for Raikou to 'persuade' Semiramis. The floating city owner had to take over the conversation herself and openly released the people just so that she wouldn't have to hear anymore slurping from Raikou. 

It's quite the addictive smoothie that makes Raikou feel in such a blissful state. She had heard of Ambrosia which was the name of the top most grade alcohol in the now former city of Orario but even though she has had a small cup of it before as a gift from one of her former dedicated students in an attempt to win her affections. Yet even that glass pales in comparison to this smoothie. She loves how it refills automatically too, though she feels that the cup is getting lighter and lighter recently.

'Is it running out? I should go ask Axel for another. Ah, this is the life' She muses to herself as she takes in the next gulp of her drink and then almost chokes when the dense killing intent spreads out throughout the camp. 

'Axel? But wh….no' "Wait, don't kill her yet" She quickly understands who the source of the killing intent is as she has experienced it before during the pregnancy situation.

With her own seal finally relinquished, she crosses the distance of 90 meters (nearly 300ft) within a half second through her own lightning enhanced mana burst (step). She dashes into the tent and steps forwards to Axel as she tries to call out to him but he waves his left hand and she disappears from everyone's view. 

Alaya frowns because her connection to Raikou was cut at that moment but she has no reason to believe that he had killed his own lover and former 'goddess'. She recalls that the Saint katana wielder had eluded her senses for a while beforehand as well. 

As such her thoughts turn in two directions, one is that he has a space that can hide things from her senses, likely the very same so-called city within Axel himself. While her other thoughts are on how to potentially escape from Axel as she can tell by his mounting killing intent that only briefly halted when he moved to do something to Raikou returned in full blast. 

Raikou instead is quite comfortable, upon launching herself at Axel with the intention of latching onto him and essentially turning herself into a backpack on him. She was instead thrust into his reality marble and landed on top of something soft. The material is a bit coarse but very colorful and shaped like a childish castle from what she could determine as she went diving into it. The sudden bounciness of her would-be cushion was another surprise for her. Yet as she turns around to lie on her back, she takes in the sky and takes in a deep breath, feeling the joys of life that have been brought to her in the past 9 months since Axel joined her.

Sure there were some ups and downs but it was never anything that her precious 'child' couldn't handle. She has watched him grow as a man….in more ways than one. Yet even she has regrets which puts a small barrier between them. 

The first is the obvious. She was not the one to claim his virginity. She has still not forgiven Freya for that event. 

The second is that she still has not gotten pregnant. Yes it is mostly her own fault for being an immortal 'demi-god' and thus under the same obstructions to getting pregnant as regular gods.This is why she has been a bit more excited recently since she heard that Axel's falna has broken down even though that means her connection to him was broken which also saddens her. 

The second issue with her second problem is that even if she does get pregnant now, her child would only be the 5th so far. The first being Syr which she now regrets having allowed during their private time. The second is Aisha who is close to giving birth in the next day or so unless her baby is also stubborn, she is not fully sure how to feel about her since from what she heard, her impregnation was more of a spur of the moment thing, but she cant hate her since she will still be the one to cuddle with the other woman's baby while she recovers.

The third one is Haruhime but she can't hate the cute renard who has become the maid of the family. Their similar homelands brought them together when she had very few to relate to in her own home. She awaits however adorable the future fox child will look when they are born. 

The fourth and the source of her ire is Freya, who had undergone a transformation due to some sort of destined fate with 'her' Odr. This has bound her to Axel and thus could get pregnant.

Nevertheless, she is determined to be the next no matter what. 

She has many other things to complain about but those will have to wait as she is shaken out of her thoughts by a sudden transparent window opening up above her in the sky. The window in question is a mile long, allowing everyone in the village to be able to see into it (Syr & Sabrina, Freya, Haruhime and Aisha).

Yet they are all surprised to see that window morphs until they can finally see something on it. They soon lay witness to a large tent with a gathering of immortals and gods but the primary focus is on the cloaked figure of a woman off to the side. Yes, Axel had created a form of tv within his reality marble that allows anyone to see what he sees. And what they see is the beginning of an ass whoopin'. 

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Tune in Next time for C155: Wrath. Where we finally throw hands.